Hi all, I'm Bernard Metzler from IBM Zurich Research Lab. For quite some years now, my main interests are in design, implementation and deployment of flexible and highly efficient I/O stacks. I worked on specification and implementation of protocols and programming interfaces for Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and non-volatile memory integration. I am representing IBM at the Board of the Open Fabrics Alliance. My contributions to the open source community include a communication subsystem for non-volatile memory integration with the BlueGene supercomputer, and a software only RDMA driver for Linux, which aims at enabling RDMA applications at any host system w/o dedicated RDMA hardware. I am in the process of submitting this driver to Linux upstream. Ultimate goal is to enable RDMA applications (like Crail!) within any cloud environment. I worked in the context of several international research projects, including the Human Brain Project, and the Square Kilometer Array Project. I am involved with Crail from it's very beginning, so far mainly contributing to the design discussion. It is my first Apache project.
Cheers, Bernard.
